At least 20 people were killed and possibly “hundreds” of others were injured after one or more loud bangs were heard Monday night at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England, multiple law enforcement told NBC News.

U.K. authorities suspect the incident was conducted by a suicide bomber, according to multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.

Police have confirmed they are responding to an incident during an Ariana Grande concert at the venue.

Law enforcement sources in both Britain and the United States told NBC News there were possibly two explosions. There was no immediate information on what kind of explosions occurred, and the sources stressed that the information was preliminary and subject to change.

Greater Manchester Police said only that there were “a number of confirmed fatalities and injuries” as hundreds of fans fled the arena. Emergency crews rushed to the scene after the possible blasts, which were first reported about 10:40 p.m. (5:40 p.m. ET).

Multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials who are monitoring British authorities told NBC News that preliminary reports indicate that a single explosion took place outside the arena on the southwest side opposite the train station. The explosion occurred as the concert ended, catching people as they exited.

U.S. officials said initial reports from the scene indicated that a number of the casualties might have been caused by a stampede of concert-goers.

New York City counterterrorism police said they were monitoring developments.

“Ariana is okay,” a representative said. “We are further investigating what happened.”

Likewise, Bianca Landrieu, the Boston hiphop star known as Bia, who also performed, tweeted: “Guys we are okay!!!”

British Transport Police said officers were at the arena, which sits atop the Manchester Victoria transit station. All lines to Manchester Victoria were closed, National Rail said in a statement. Northern Railway said the station had been evacuated….

Different groups that use terror to make their point, target different places, people, etc. Those who study terrorism, not just the islamic kind, look at these to help identify the perpetrators. Some groups like to target government sites; others big corporations.

Who is the most likely to target a concert where an American singer is performing, and a lot of children are gathered? There is really one most logical answer.

This is no time for anti-Jewish or any anti- religious group talk or hatred. Hatred comes from a dark heart and many cherry pick religious tomes to justify what evil they do. Religion matters not. Sheer evil and hatred that festers in a dark heart is what matters along with a complete lack of humanity.

Don’t be silly; terrorism is not caused by a spontaneous outbreak of “evil and hatred festering in dark hearts”; or any other woman’s magazine type hyperbole; it is caused by people working in concert to spread the ideology of violence known as Islam.
Claiming that “religion matters not” is a straightforward misrepresentation of the facts – or to be blunt – a downright lie.
Even the way you express it – the pompous, whiffly “religion matters not” – rather than “religion doesn’t matter” indicates that you are refusing to engage with reality, and essentially, yours is a thoroughly selfish “it didn’t happen to me, so I don’t care” attitude.
Newsflash ! Terrorists don’t give a flying-toss about your lovely bien-pensant attitudes.

There is a dialectic here, LB: Ideas have consequences and the ideas of Islam have fatal consequences, since they don’t combat the hatred that comes from the dark hearts you talk about. On the contrary: Islam employs hatred and resentment in its service.

The creator of Islam was evil. He had sex with a nine year old, waged six wars, had sex slaves, and had many people killed. It would be like saying Nazism is not evil! It should be mandatory for everyone to learn who Muhammad really was, not like Jesus, more like Hitler!

Well – apart from Islam, we should not Forget freemasonry. The masons hate christianity and lead a war against Society, the crown and the church since a Long time. This cult should Long have been hacked to pieces and their temples burnt with fire.

It was obvious this would happen. If security is tightened to the access of public events then the attackers will shift to the targeting of the exits or to the security points themselves. Both have now happened. One reason I don’t comment at JihadWatch much anymore is because the obvious has mostly been said already.

People have got to get it into their heads that more effective security is to be found at the national borders, at mosques, at the homes of anyone who peruses jihad web sites.

We are at war. How many more dead little kids will it take for people to realize this?

Tom…I agree with your statement that “the obvious has already been said”. We say that “obvious” to each other here, but the real question is whether we are willing to stick our necks out and say that “obvious” to others. Strong, well financed voices speak for the Islamic agenda, and those voices have penetrated into all corners of our government and society. Are we willing to counter those voices? I learned at a young age that standing up for the right thing often demands a price, so are we willing to pay a price to save our future? We can mumble our defiance among ourselves or we can take the risk of standing out and speaking up. For example: how many of those Americans who follow this site have contacted their Congressmen/women and stated that CAIR and its affiliates should all be officially listed as terrorist organizations?

You are right, of course. I certainly didn’t mean to sound as if we should give up. I personally have been publishing in ways that come at this from another angle, so I also don’t have time to come here often. I also don’t see a need to duplicate JihadWatch.

It would be very hard to list CAIR as a terror organization on par with ISIL, but yes, let’s start with the Muslim Brotherhood and then move on to the MB affiliates in the U.S. Do the same with the other foreign backers of CAIR and their U.S. affiliates. I don’t think we can treat CAIR differently than the Klan absent other evidence, but we should do that also.

Yes we have said it all so many times before but still people in Europe who this year in France had the chance to change their government to have a more robust stance against the evil of Islam chose more of the same. Germany the worst culprit in endangering the people of Europe (for the third time in the last 100years)look set to re-elect the odious Angela Merkel.
The history books ,if they are not censored by Islamic dictatorship, will ask students to analyse why Europe slept like JFK did in his book Why England Slept in the 1930s
Lack of guts and leadership and the weakness of political correctness will be the only answer possible !

Quran (2:191-193) – “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing… but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone.

Highly possible this was yet another act of Muslim terrorism: Feeling the love again from the true faith. Hey, who isn’t nowadays?

Britain: You have opened the door to the barbarian who uses religion to mask its control-freak intentions. Ditto for many other Western nations, including my own, America.

Truly, and I say this as a student of history for some forty years now, I know of no comparable allowance for the barbarian to enter into the civilized world all the while the pretense is proffered that the barbarian is not a barbarian.

Yes, later Roman Emperors (e.g., Valens) allowed various Teutonic barbarians to enter into the perimeters of the Empire (which came back to bite Valens in the butt in 378 at Adrianople), but they were under no illusion that such Teutons were anything but barbarians. Other examples could be found when the civilized world made concessions to the uncivilized world (e.g., certain Byzantine emperors in the latter stages of Byzantine history). But we live in a unique age whereby the barbarian is described, and described regularly, as something good and noble (e.g., by that silly valedictorian at Notre Dame the other day).

This is nuts. Islam is evil and a mortal enemy of freedom. Its reputed founder was a psychopath. Most all that Islam stands for is in opposition to Western Civilization as it has evolved. And so inviting this beast into the West makes zero sense. Well then, to put it simply, expect many more bombings AND the use of Western law to eventually replace said law with Islamic law.

Yeah, it’s all nuts. But ain’t going to end soon as long as Islam continues to be described as something good. Which it most certainly isn’t.

The KEY to resolving this present enormous dilemma of mankind is to characterize Islam, ALL OF IT, as wicked. Minus this, expect more 9/11s, Orlandos, Manchesters, et al.

graven… the Islamic state would claim responsiblity for Mickey Mouse having three fingers and and thumb.
And for the clitorectomy Minny got. ‘Alahufubar’

That said, the homicidal attack was no doubt planned, by whomever, and if Issis, it’s just what they do… slaughter crowds of people. It doesn’t matter, because other muslims, other Jihadist are there to go killing ‘others’ just to force submission. This was bound to happen, and will continue, and the results are likely very predictable.

The Roman barbarians eventually came to admire Roman civilization, law, and engineering. They finally acculturated and wanted Roman citizenship. When in Rome, over time, they did as the Romans did.

If, after 1400 years, mohammedans won’t agree that they must share this planet with Western Civilization, it’s highly unlikely that this generation will unlock the secret of how to humble these savage, horrifying people. Keeping them at arm’s length is most prudent.

Problem is, they won’t divest themselves of those bad habits and practices from the old country. Another problem, once they goof up and violate the expectations of their “religion”, they have no mechanism for mitigating their problem, other than killing themselves along with some infidels.

The civilized world relies too much upon the self-control of its citizens, and from young people learning from their mistakes. Mohammedan kids can’t cope with the temptations of modern society – it would be better for them to be in their place of origin, where they can only harm others like themselves.

The only good moslem is a poor, powerless moslem. Look at the science on terror- mostly committed by rich men. The British Crown and the American oil companies have given Saudi Arabia everything it needs to destroy civilization.

“For more than two centuries, Wahhabism has been Saudi Arabia’s dominant faith. It is an austere form of Islam that insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran. Strict Wahhabis believe that all those who don’t practice their form of Islam are heathens and enemies.”

You are correct Pere LaChaise…Wahhabism would never have had the ability to consume all of Islam and attack the entire world without the oil money that the West showered on Saudi Arabia that the Saudis then poured into their religious crusade.

Wahhabism is simply, the restoring of the practice of Islam back to the manner Allah revealed it to be practiced, and the way the Prophet Muhammad actually taught and lived it.
Wahhabis do not wish to change Islam into something it wasn’t meant to be, they only want to RESTORE it back to the original Islam of Allah & Muhammad.

As usual, Jihad Watch is the place to come to find the facts. Many news organisations are not mentioning “suicide bomber” as part of their sanitized reporting. Has all the hallmarks of an ISIS Paris style attack.

Oh, I don’t think it’s a case of *can’t* connect the dots. After all, we here at JW are quite capable of connecting the dots. But our media and political elites *won’t* admit the connection between islam and terrorism, either from fear of causing ‘offence’, or from fear of jeopardising the flow of Saudi and Qatari petro-dollars. Or maybe both. Sickening.

UK politicians don’t “do” God, and, with the exception of Evangelicals and some Catholics, the British are ill at ease talking about religion – it is widely considered not quite “the done thing” to talk about it. Since Mrs May is a practicing Anglican, I’m not surprised that she spoke as she did. Public mention of one’s religion tends to elicit embarrassment or contempt, not respect. It is OK to be known to have one – it is well-known that she is a vicar’s daughter, and a practising Christian; but any public expression of one’s religion is frowned upon. The idea that a Baptist MP would woo voters by mentioning his Baptist Christianity, as seems to happen in the US, is unimaginable here. Politics in the UK is secular. On the whole, I think that is a good thing.

Yes, but what is she thinking ? Because it won’t be anything useful, such as “How do I put a stop to this?” or “This is my fault because I have spent my career importing nearly 2 million migrants.” (That’s 2 million NET, by-the-way after deducting the number of those leaving the UK – the number of new arrivals will be vastly higher…) etc, it will be “Damn – how do I avoid taking the blame for this ?” to be followed by calculating how to play it for electoral advantage: “Only the Tories can tackle terrorism!”, followed by getting it out of the media as fast as possible, and then back to business as usual just the same as it has been post-Westminster, post the London tube and bus bombings, post numerous stabbings, beheadings, rapes, forced under-age prostitution, FGM, forced marriages, riots, calls for murder etc – ie, carrying on importing ever more Third World migrants, and changing the laws of the country and the way of life of the indigenous inhabitants, to accommodate them.
Nothing will change, except that things will get worse, because the “authorities” haven’t got either the will or the ability to do a damn thing about it. They are a class of rich and protected Quislamists sucking at the teat of public money and foreign donations, and they don’t give a damn.what happens to the country and it’s population just so long as they don’t get the blame.

Of course she does not, since Theresa May belongs to the satanic cult named Freemasonry. As Long as freemasons have a lot of power in western governments, don’t ever trust anything that Comes from the government. It was either done by Islam – who happens to be a natural ally for the freemasons war against christentom or it was a false flag perpetuated by masons.

Masonry is satanic and they own and run England. But nobody seems to care about the wickedness coming out of the temple. Is Islam dangerous? Of course it is. Is terrorism coming out of it? Of course. But isnt’t that the “beautiful” Thing for the masons? Either the open border policy which contributes to christianity disappearing is going to cause People to be blown up on a regular base – or if not enough Terror is committed, than the masons are glad to help out.

Don’t be fooled that masonry is about God, it is not. They share with Islam that apostates are killed.

I am working from home today, right now its around 12pm here and I’ve been keeping abreast of this issue since the news broke, online and on the TV news around 5 hours ago..

The mainstream media has been doing its damnedest to dodge calling this what it so clearly is. The British Government and the British Police have shamefully – done exactly the same thing. Only now, in the last 20 or so minutes am I starting to see headlines that are vaguely suggesting terrorism.

Sorry in advance for swearing here – but FOR FUCK’S SAKE. Given that there have been THIRTY THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR Islamic terror attacks around the planet since 9/11 (Thanks TROP), I think its safe to say that the setting off of a homemade bomb filled with nails and ball bearings and screws etc in Manchester, in a place designed to cause as much carnage as possible – was a TERROR ATTACK IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.

Anyone with a pulse can see that, whether they are too cowardly to admit or not.

I’ve also noticed a myriad of other articles that have frankly, infuriated me. A bunch of Celebrities around the world stating on social media that they are ‘praying’ for those impacted. Praying. Seriously. You can’t make this up.

Because prayers and tea light candles (which I’m sure we’ll see pictures of in the next couple of hours) are surely going to be an adequate response to this. Because statements from ignorant, self entitled, publicity seeking Celebrities throwing out 120 character tweet’s about how they are praying for the victims, will do a GODDAMN SINGLE GOOD THING at all.

The British Police have employed some utterly incredible mental gymnastics today with their avoidance of uttering ‘Islam’ or ‘terror attack’. The only place, the ONLY site out of around 8 different sites I’ve visited that is even mentioning the fact that ISIS have claimed responsibility, is this site, is Jihad Watch.

The Atlantic is still claiming its ‘an explosion’. The Mirror, the DailyMail and news.com.au are just starting now, to move away from ‘explosion’ to ‘attack’. No-one else is mentioning Islam though. Because GOD FORBID we point out the truth and a bunch of filthy Muslims get their easily offended knickers in a twist yet again, more proof that their sadistic cult is yet again, the reason why these bombs were placed there and why one went off.

19 people are dead. Over 50 injured. This was a bomb filled with nails, ball bearings and screws. According to Channel Nine’s ‘The Today Show’ in Australia, ’19 people passed away’.

No they didn’t.

19 people were mercilessly, cruelly slaughtered. Their bodies were shredded by metal hardware that some filthy, depraved, inhumane ingrate bought at his local home hardware store. THEY. WERE. MURDERED. IN. THE. NAME. OF. ISLAM.

Those 50 injured, who are right now, moaning, groaning and shrieking from their hospital beds, are in utter agony – some faced with a future wherein they will never recover the health and physical status they had prior to that bomb going off. They had flesh ripped from their bodies. Bones splintered and shattered. They have not been ‘injured’, they have been sadistically mutilated.

Islam did this, once more. Muslims did this, once more. Meanwhile the British Authorities are trying so damn hard to avoid saying this, the Left are currently silent on the truth and Muslims around the world are doing one of two things. They are either madly cheering and clapping along with the news, or they are quietly keeping their heads down, cowards who are fearful of the repercussions – they know they will be blamed, but they will not abandon their precious Islam all the same.

I am sick of hollow platitudes. Sick of insincere lies and deception. Sick of the celebration. People have been mercilessly slaughtered. People have been sadistically mutilated. Countless others are terrified out of their wits and the rest of us are extremely, deeply worried, to put it mildly.

When will enough be enough? When will we finally stand up and say, ‘no more’? Frankly, I could care less right now what any Muslim thinks of my saying this. I don’t care if they’re upset by what I have written, if they are sad at the thought of Islam being ‘blamed’. I don’t care if they are offended. They should be worried. They should be scared. They support and prop up a 3 tier religious, political and cultural system that is the direct reason for why there have been over 30,800 attacks against innocent human lives since 2001. They have no excuse anymore. Either continue to believe in it and be recognized as a coward and a brutal, depraved, obscene animal who rewards and supports slaughter – or walk away from it now, honestly and PERMANENTLY . There are no other options anymore. No more excuses. Enough time and more than enough carnage has occurred.

Its BEYOND time we held Islam and its supporters’ accountable for what is happening to the world.

I also bet, the contents of my purse, my bank accounts and my superannuation account that within the next 24 hours we will hear that the scum they have arrested are ‘mentally ill’ and ‘do drugs and drink and gamble’ and are ‘not good Muslims’. May as well throw in the classic chestnuts of ‘Islam is the religion of peace’ or even ‘the vast majority of Muslims are good peaceful people’. Lies, all lies.

To the Politicians, to the Police, to those on the Left and especially to every Muslim on the planet today; all I have to say to all of you is; enough is enough. No more. You will no longer escape the consequences of your actions. Support and lie about Islam at your own peril. The blood of those innocent people who have been harmed and murdered is on your hands.

I am sickened. I am disgusted. I no longer have any empathy, compassion, tolerance or objectivity for any male or female on this planet who wishes to lie about Islam. Every single person who does, is an inhumane, depraved, obscene piece of utter vile shit as far as I am concerned. This is utterly unforgivable, it MUST end and the only way we will ever end this is by banning absolutely any and every aspect of Islam from the West and by expelling absolutely every man woman and child that follows Islam,irrespective of whether they were born here or not, to any Islamic nation on the planet, of their choosing.

They want Islam so badly? Let them have it, living in an Islamic nation of their choice, without any contact of any kind with the rest of the world. There are around 1.4 billion Muslims. There are around 5.6 billion OTHER PEOPLE ON THE PLANET WHO ARE NOT MUSLIMS. I’d wager that the rights of those 5.6 BILLION people, it is fair to say, come first before 1.4 billion Muslims, especially when the risks in play are fear, terror, mutilation and slaughter. Get rid of all of them.

We can’t – it’s not possible. Our own laws work against us and the enemy knows that. We bleed money to them like a fire hydrant. They know all of our systems and use them against us.

The first mistake was made long ago – when the very first one landed in the West.

It’s too late. Our children need to learn how to fight. They will be the ones who bear this burden – the burden of the sins of the politically correct.

Every inch we give them confirms their belief that Allah is giving them the world so only he (that evil cock sucker, as some people call him, the father of apes and pigs and rats, as others have said) will be praised.

If we chose to change those laws – we could. But I agree with you in that we will not.

It breaks my heart to think that we have consigned the future generations to war and to misery. We should be reaching for the stars now. We should be exploring space, we should be expanding, growing and evolving as a species.

Instead, we are about to be dragged down to hell by our own making. All because of religion. In this day and age. That just boggles my mind.

We will have to fight. If I am alive when it happens, I will fight too. I am a woman – and a Westerner – I have to, if I want to be free to lead my own life of my own making.

We never learned from our mistakes, clearly. I hate the Left right now I really, really do.

We won’t have to fight if the Left immediately reverses its immigration policy (yeah, I know that won’t happen).

Anyway, we just have to look at Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Japan, where these kind of things do not happen, and yes, that is because they didn’t allowed large numbers of muslims in their countries.

Even the Saudis or other rich middle eastern islamic countries do not want them in. No wonder why they are much safer than western Europe.

I just do not know how Italy has not been attacked yet, despite Isis calls to conquer Rome.

moeped…Muslims use the word “crusade” to make Westerners (who have a poor grasp of history) whimper “mea culpa” then roll over and piss themselves in contrition. But I understand both the word and the history so I call the current situation what it really is – an ISLAMIC CRUSADE against the rest of the world.

I agree completely with Sarah and all the other comments. As English is not my motherlanguage I can’t express it very well. I get completely sick of governments who tell us all the time that they are shocked and will pray for the victims and their families. As governments and judges don’t keep to their own laws any more, why do we have to?
And is their any comment from the so called moderate moslims? We have armies in other countries to fight, but we can’t protect our own citizens in our own countries. Why not, because the law says so? We don’t have freedom of speech, no freedom in anything. Why should we have to keep to the laws?

Sarah is right in what we said all along. You saddle our children and grandchildren up with these enormous problems. They don’t know yet, the small ones for sure not. Thank you leftists. It is treason that you did, but build them another mosque or prayerroom or washingroom, dictate our kids at the schools to lay down for your prophet on your mats, but religion of peace he !!!!
You are almost as bad as they are. Shame, shame, shame on you, so called Christians, you sold out Christianity. Be proud of yourselves how kind and good you are. We know what you are, anything but not human. Are you shocked too and are you coming to Manchaster Arene to bring flowers again and teddybears etc. We have seen that enough and I am sure the victims will be helped with that again.
And it will be happening over and over again, but then says can, you can expect that in big cities, so live by it. Say it again to parents and families who lost young loved once again.
It is a way to put terror and to decimate people. What a mess, but let them come in by sometimes 10.000 a day. You stupid people! Sorry, I am so angry.Indeed what an insane world. What an insane EU and what an insane UN.They are overpaid by taxpayers money, sitting on the pluche but can not even take a firm stand. And the news media should be ashamed totally too, you don’t even dear to write the truth. scarecrows. But it was propheted: everything that is nowmal will become abnormal and the other way around. By now I think that most people were and are not normal and can not think for themselves so it is hard to even point out, who is still normal, but then we don’t get away with mentally unbalanced.
And they are messing with the computers, I noticed that already for months and am sure, this will be taken of, but people, you come to the conclusion that nothing is the truth, never was and hopefully one day will be, but I will not be around to see that day, it takes too long. I agree with Barguest : What an insane ,screwed up world. But we don’t know at the moment which devices they use to screw up your brains, because what governments did behind our backs, we do not have any, but any idea. And I will leave it like that. Courage people, the tide has to turn one way or another. I hope you still can have a good day, look at the nature and feel sorry for the animals who get slaughtered for HALAL and eat when you are invited for the RAMADAN.
These people have been so oppressed, they donot know what is normal life without conquering and killing. I presume you would get the same thing if North Koreans all of a sudden were free, they would come here too and the same things would happen, it is in a way understandable, but they have to stay in their own countries and seek it out. We had to do that too, so, go back and seek out your own problems, We gave you the money for it, but it did not help, now you get the money from your rich friends in Arabia, but when you were there,you did not get a penny to help you, but when it is in their own interest, they are helping you to conquer and divide. You are a death cult. Only out to kill.
Horrendous !!!!

This has NOTHING to do with suicide. Suicide is forbidden in Islam. If you’re just too politically correct to call this a “Jihad attack”, or refer to it as a “Pass to Paradise attack” or even a “Promise of 72 Virgins attack”. Suicide is about depression, or destitution, NOT religious devotion. The world will never begin to make meaningful progress toward solving a problem it refuses to accurately discuss.

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